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    "id": 1238857,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Adan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute and give my input on this Report. It is shameful and unfortunate to find out that a financial audit of all the constituencies in a whole region is questionable. I hope that when other reports will be brought here, we shall see an improvement where, at least, there will be constituencies in a region which will be questionable and others not. The issue is the way the NG-CDF is being misappropriated, when it is released and how it is managed by entities which are not part of the NG-CDF system. For example, the district accountant of every sub-county or constituency is the sole Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) holder. He keeps all the books of account of NG-CDF. He has many other issues in the district, which he is supposed to give priority to. Hence, he only gives the NG-CDF time when it is convenient to him. That is why we have problems. Again, funds are released very late. Right now, we have two months to the end of the financial year and yet, the funds have not been released. As soon as they come, the NG-CDF Committee and the fund account manager will want to implement their projects, but the district accountant might not be available. Nothing moves forward without him or her. That is why we see a lot of misappropriation of funds because of that rush to implement projects. On the other hand, all the constituencies fund managers are not answerable to anybody within the constituency. They are answerable to the CEO in Nairobi. Hence, they take their sweet time. They disappear sometimes and are not available when critical issues are happening. Recently, MPs made a lot of noise and funds for bursaries were released. A lot of bursary money delayed because those entities, which are not directly part of the NG-CDF team. They were not available to fast-track and enhance their payment. I support the recommendations of the Committee. I would like to see them being implemented. Many a times, we come up with very good recommendations, but I do not know what happens in the Committee on Implementation. That is because there is no follow up. They are presented here, but they are not implemented. Can those recommendations be implemented to the letter?"
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